Kings Quotes - Page 99

He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!

I looked at the cards in my hand, the queen of hearts nestled between the king of clubs and the king of spades. No wonder she was smiling.

There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.

I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful lot of modern writing seems to me to be a depressed use of language. Once, I called it "vow-of-poverty prose." No, give me the king in his countinghouse. Give me Updike.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.

It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.

Dinocrates did not leave the king, but followed him into Egypt. There Alexander, observing a harbor rendered safe by nature, an excellent center for trade, cornfields throughout all Egypt, and the great usefulness of the mighty river Nile, ordered him to build the city of Alexandria, named after the king. This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous.

You can go a hundred miles a second Don't have to drive no lousy cab Got everything you want and more man And the King picks up the tab You walk around on streets of gold all day And you never have to listen To what these customers say and I know.

[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to peace and the freedom of racialized minorities.

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

It's hard being the king, but somebody's got to do it.

I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

It was just a kiss – " "Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey.

"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.

I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.

When someone asks me, 'What do you do?' under my breath I want to say, 'Ask my f--king bank account what I do,'

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.